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| atsf643 | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> USA trip Jan/Feb 2009 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow | map |
 gloomy departure |
 Chicago is...my kind of town, except in winter... |
 Steve and Jason scanning my railroad stuff |
 Eric Goodman and Steve Priest at Argentine |
 Argentine intermodal yard |
 loading a box |
 Mi-Jack straddle crane |
 pile of chassis |
 UPS drop bottom pub trailer |
 Argentine engine facility #1 |
 Argentine engine facility #2 |
 Argentine engine facility #3 |
 Argentine engine facility #4 |
 switchers at Goddard Street overpass |
 trailer loading |
 fixing a sticking kingpin |
 Argentine LMIT |
 Argentine engine facility #5 |
 Argentine engine facility #6 - engines basking in the low winter sun |
 Kaw (or Kansas) River bend at Morris |
 eastbound trailer train at Holiday |
 westbound manifest at Santa Fe St RR crossing, MP 25.82 |
 Santa Fe lives!!! BNSF is obviously reusing the old reporting marks... |
 Santa Fe signal bridges |
 a hard core tailgating vehicle |
 Ottawa in HO scale |
 Ottawa timetable from the old days |
 historic Ottawa depot, now a museum |
 "new" Ottawa depot |
 eastbound stack on the transcon |
 westbound boxes at Montana Road RR crossing |
 the Ghost of the Transcon |
 rails to bike trails |
 Chanute depot |
 Chanute underpass |
 SKOL/WAMX power |
 a chance encounter |
 Deputy Chief Perry Lambert manning his office |
 Cherryvale depot |
 Senor Salsa's in the sunset |
 Samuel and Sammy supporting the station sign |
 remnants of the Santa Fe are everywhere on the old Tulsa line |
 downtown Tulsa |
 eastbound TXUX coal train on the old Frisco |
 Frisco 4-8-4 #4500, in process of cosmetic preservation |
 up high in the cab |
 Cherokee Yard |
 UP transfer job entering Cherokee Yard |
 company switchers shut down for the weekend |
 top down of Cherokee Yard |
 Ollie's Restaurant: a Route 66 landmark |
 checking out Sand Springs Railway Club |
 Catoosa, OK roadside attraction |
 another Route 66 landmark |
 switching the ATSF on Jim Senese's Kansas City Terminal layout |
 switching the BN in the West Bottoms |
 Jim, Sammy and Samuel discussing the next transfers |
 dangling tags and cabs on Jim's layout |
 photographers at David Salamon's beautiful N-scale layout |
 Sammy Carlile's Hereford Sub ready for action |
 operating session gang |
 my first westbound at Hereford |
 Jim watching the 991-hotshot |
 David switching Amarillo Junior Yard |
 dispatching |
 hostling power in Clovis |
 a proud smile from Sammy |
 Amarillo South Yard lineup |
 Jim and David busy switching Hereford |
 Samuel was all over it |
 Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach |
 hotel fountain |
 pool area |
 the beach |
 Fontainbleau Hotel from the beach |
 action at Mango's Tropical Cafe |
 Robert and Simone enjoying a break from sessions |
 nighttime at the LIV nightclub |
 Miami Boat Show preparations |
 our "boat" |
 dock scene |
 built and run by Italians |
 container terminal |
 anchored freighter |
 downtown Miami from the boat |
 cruise ship flipper |
 waterfront homes |
 the Maersk dock in Miami |
 Coast Guard watching over us |
 Maersk dock and downtown |
 Fisher Island |
 South Beach, Miami |
 leaving Miami |
 Jack, Jeanne and Cleve basking in the setting sun |
 Caribbean sunset |
 play at sea |
 big flipper |
 the crowd at leisure |
 Stefan and I having a nice day |
 at sea |
 Plaza Major |
 moored at Cozumel |
 the tiles of Cozumel |
 nighttime aboard |
 our route across the Caribbean |
 fun at dinner time with Andreas, Norbert, Robert and - another Andreas |
 Josef, Ralf and Christine having a ball |
 downtown Miami |
 monsters - at sea and on shore |
 the cruise dock |
 my plane home (the one in the back) - upgrade coming up |
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